How Common Core was created and promoted by big business. "When it came time to draft the provisions, career readiness was a central focus. The writers spent their first two months learning what colleges and businesses wanted high school graduates to know by the time they arrived on their doorstep. From there, the writers “back mapped,” crafting grade-by-grade benchmarks to get them there." Fortune Magazine Dec 2015

The state mandated tests and MANDATED state-to-state databases (SLDS -P-20 databases) are vehicles for the nationwide student data collection, both academic and nonacademic. Without Common Core, the federal and corporate invasion of privacy could not be effective. DATA. Social emotional data collected via online programs, algorithms to detect everything from mood, personality, "grit", well being---your values and belief system: 21st Century Skills.

The SLDS, testing companies, and many online education tech companies align [code] all the data so it is comparable across systems. The defined data elements in the dictionary are called Common Education Data Standards (CEDS). The Federal Government has created over 1,500 individual CEDS, tagged in a standard way, so they are comparable and sharable across all computer systems, because there is an agreed upon code to tag each piece of data put into every data dictionary in the country. astonishing amount of information collected

The State Core Model <--You have to look. Then read a terrific overview of the document here. The State Core Model is a common technical reference model for states implementing state longitudinal data systems. It was developed by CCSO. "The core purpose of an SLDS is to fulfill federal reporting (EDEN/EDFacts), support SEA, LEA, and research data-driven decision making, and enable exchange of comparable data between education agencies. The Model could enable states to vastly reduce the number and burden of data collection by replacing 625 distinct Federal reporting types with record-level data collections. In addition, it is designed to support dropout early warning intervention systems (DEWIS), positive behavior intervention systems (PBIS) and response to intervention (RTI), balanced scorecard performance management, and provide and extensible model capable of accommodating future needs."

Read entire outline of how RTTT accomplished Common Core, data mining and accountability- HERE ALL HINGES ON STUDENT DATA click here to see how data is taken and shared. "To help each state bring all parties to the reform table, we deployed four tools. First, we forced alignment among the top three education leaders in each participating state—the governor, the chief state school officer, and the president of the state board of education—by requiring each of them to sign their state’s Race to the Top application. In doing so, they attested that their office fully supported the state’s reform proposal.Second, we requested (but did not require) the inclusion of signatures by three district officials—the superintendent, the school board president, and the leader of the relevant teachers’ union or teachers’ association—on each district-level MOU. This approach, among other benefits, gave unions standing in the application process without giving them veto power over it.

Third, we created tangible incentives for states to gain a wide base of community support for their plans. Securing buy-in from multiple stakeholders—business groups, parents’ groups, community organizations, and foundations, for example—earned points for a state’s application. Having the support of a state’s teachers’ union earned additional points.

Fourth, as part of the judging process, we required officials from each state that reached the finalist stage to meet in-person with reviewers to present their proposals and answer reviewers’ questions. At this meeting, a team that often included the state’s governor—as well as union leaders, district officials, and the state’s education chief—made its case to reviewers. We imposed this requirement largely to verify that those in charge of implementing their state’s plan were knowledgeable about the plan and fully committed to it. (This was particularly critical in cases where states had used consultants to help draft their application.)" SEE MORE HERE

Video: Arne Duncan, U.S. Federal Secretary of Education, explaining his plan for American Children. This plan includes a "cradle to grave tracking program" for children (which is already in place), and also includes year round school, 7 days a week and longer school days.See the White House's Education First Initiative video here.

Watch this videoexplaining hidden data collection on children. "The human race is about to enter a totally data-mined existence." -Knewton

excerpt fromtranscript:"education happens to be today the world's most data minable industry by far...So Knewton today gets five to ten million actionable data per student per day. Now we do that because we get people, if you can believe it, totag everysinglesentence of their content so publishers, we have a large publishing partnershipwith Pearson, and they tag all their content. And we're in open standard so anyone can tag us."

U.S. Dept of Ed -Enforcing Data Mining. Click to down load this pdf

These 10 organizations joined together in 2005, forming the Data Quality Campaign, to promote common data standards, and implement state longitudinal data systems (SLDS). The campaign is supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and managed by the National Center for Educational Accountability (Marc Tucker, CEO).The campaign will promote the ten essential elements of a longitudinal data system:1. A unique statewide student identifier2. Student-level enrollment, demographic and program participation information3. The ability to match individual students' test records from year to year to measure academic growth4. Information on untested students5. A teacher identification system with the ability to match teachers to students6. Student-level transcript information, including information on courses complete and grades earned7. Student-level college readiness test scores8. Student-level graduation and dropout data9. The ability to match student records between the Pre-K and post-secondary systems10. A state audit system assessing data quality, validity and reliability.These ten elements are essential but not sufficient.Policymakers need to plan for a series of next-generation improvements, including the ability to connect school performance with spending; to connect education systems with employment and other systems; and to transfer records across states. Read full document (much more) here: http://www.achieve.org/data-quality-campaign-launched-data-summitTop

﻿﻿Children's data is shared to other state and federal agencies, is also shared across states and can be sold to outside VENDORS. Whenever your child logs onto online applications, meta data is being collected. Open meta data is a $3 trillion dollar industry.

Student Data is a $500 billion/year industry, in the US alone, according to Rupert Murdoch. ﻿Murdoch owns AMPLIFY, a data collecting company used in Colorado.﻿

This Fordham Institute studyfinds the data is not stored securely and "there are serious deficiencies in privacy protection." The study also states that vendors are often not beholden to federal privacy laws." CDE COLLECTS PERSONAL, IDENTIFIABLE information on students and shares that data. See CDE policy on sharing that data here.

So what, it's just grades, right?NO. This data is a personal profile, information like personality, behavior, habits, anxieties, medications, discipline, how fast they type on tests, family information such as income, race, and more. 400 fields of possible data. see SLDS. Additionally, see this ed.gov website, pg62. Read article about Colo student datamining here

Why are we profiling our children and why are we allowing others to profit from this ?Call your Legislator and Colo Dept of Education-ask them to stop sharing your child's information-without your consent.

Click here for a step by step guide on how to contact your legislator, getting to /parking at the capitol, testifying for a bill (it's easy!) and the steps involved in legislative process.

Find out how Colorado 2014 candidates felt about common core, data mining and PARCC testing. See results of a grassroots survey given to your Colorado candidates. Click here to see SURVEY RESULTS-- Names of candidates are alphabetical by FIRST name.